The man arrested last fall for attempting to sell Adolph Hitler's golden bookmark (details here) has plead guilty. The bookmark was stolen from a Spanish auction house in 2002.Details are here.--David E
"Hot blood begets hot thoughts, and hot thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love."
We know comparatively little about William Shakespeare--least of all what he looked like. But we may now be one step closer to finding out. Art historians have agreed that a painting recently uncovered in the UK is a almost certainly a likeness of the bard, painted during his lifetime.Details are here.--David E
Something Fishy
The Big Bang Book Club meets Tuesday, March 24, at Grumpy's Bar & Grill to discuss Neal Shubin’s book Your Inner Fish. Why do we look the way we do? Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells the story of our bodies as you've never heard … Continue reading Something Fishy
Musings from Magers and Quinn 